Improvement in jars for candy



W. C` KING.

Jars for Candy.

No. 134,072, Patented Dec.17,1872.

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM C. KING, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN JARS FOR CANDY.

`Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,072, dated December 17, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. KING, of the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented'a `certain new and useful Improvement in Jars a flexible ring is :interposed between the neck of the jar and the lia-nge of its lid, whereby dust and otherimpurities are excluded from the contents of the jar.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my new article of manufacture, I will proceed to describe more fully its construction.

In the accompanying drawing which forms part of my specification, Figure 1 represents a vertical section of the upper portion of the glass jar constituting my new article of manfacture 5 and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the upper portion of the jar with its lid or cap removed.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents the body ofthe jar. B represents the lneck of the jar provided with a groove, C, inwhich is x placed a gum or other elastic ring, D. E represents the cap of the jar, which may be constructed of either glass, tin, or other material. The inner edge of the rin g D presses against the bottom of the groove C, and the outer edge of the ring against the inner surface of the ange f of the lid E, as shown :in Fig. 1, whereby dust and other impurities are eX- cluded from the contents of the jar.

By providing a candy-j ar with a flexible and pliant band, so constructed and arranged with relation to the neck of the jar that a greater portion of the band will project outward from the outer wall of the neck of the jar, whereby the pliant and yielding action of the band will compensate for the irregularity in the flange of the lid, (nearly always present in lids of candyjars,) and will so press against the inner wall of the flange of the -lid that dust and vapors are excluded from the jar, and its contents kept in the desired condition without the necessity of hermetically sealing the jar-a process always attended with labor and trouble; but whenconstructed as hereinbefore described the lid can be removed and replaced with ease and facility.

I am aware that gum bands have been used in combination with the neck of a jar and its lid for the purpose of keeping articles hermetically sealed, as in the case of preserving fruits, Snc.; therefore I do not claim, broadly, the use of gum' or elastic bands in connection with a jar and its lid; but What I do claim as being of my invention 1s A new article of manufacture, viz., a candyjar, the neck of which is provided with a pliant and yielding band, a greater portion of which proj ects outward and beyond the outer wall of the neck, and readily yielding to the ange of the lid, so as to exclude dust and vapor without the. necessity of hermetically sealin g the jar, as hereinbefore described.

WM. G. KING.

Witnesses:

J AMES H. McMAsTERs, J AMES J. JOHNSTON. 

